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Assassination Politics I think he went to jail for it.

Obligatory paper on assassination politics ; only relatively sophisticated enemies of the people hate crypto because of this one though.

Obligatory link to theory.

Yes you have a low level script kiddie who probably wouldn't have to worry about being killed (not saying they'd actually be safe) if they inform.

But hackers with a high degree of skill and expertise have probably read about or heard about Assassination politics.

http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/jimbellap.htm

Read all of it and then comment on whether or not you think informants shouldn't fear death threats.

Would "assassination politics" work for patent trolls too? /waits for black helicopters.

Yup, but other than that I found it being mentionned as "al-Qaida" in July 1996. http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/bin_ladin.htm and I can tell it's authenticate because it was quoted by a 1996 usenet post http://groups.google.com/group/shamash.eretz-yisra el/browse_frm/thread/39a113dde850987a/c9d3cbaba197 2f82?lnk=st&q=al+qaida&rnum=1&hl=en#c9d3cbaba1972f 82

Oddly similar to this idea:

http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/jimbellap.htm

...then packing the US Supreme Court with neo-cons (and another timely terrorist attack to justify martial law).

http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/jimbellap.htm

The basic idea is, if you don't like the behaviour of a politician, or government representative, you contribute some $$ to a 'betting pool' for that person. Your bet is a prediction of the date of assassination of your selected public figure.

The value of the betting pool is visible to everyone, and all payments in or out of the pool are anonymous.

Probably wouldn't work in this case though, because the payee is not anonymous.

Well... this model would have probably helped them more than the standard one. Pooling the settlement money that way and making the judge disappear would have sent a pretty strong message...

--grendel drago

Looks like you need to read up on Assassination Politics

You might want to check out this site which debunks the myth that polygraphs work. And yes, I'll bet most people probably give up their passwords themselves. For instance, Jim Bell, the guy behind Assination Politcs, a guy who should know better, gave up his PGP passphrase as part of his plea bargin. He is now suing the state of Washington and a host of others for the costs of breaking the encryption, brute-force using 1997 hardware.

Been reading a bit of John Bell, have we?

I think the biggest problem for what he proposes would simply be that unpopular people would frequently get shot. Heck, so would popular people. Anyone who's well known enough will have a critical mass of enemies who'd toss in a buck for their assassination. This wouldn't destroy power; it'd destroy celebrity as well.

--grendel drago

What a waste of taxpayer money